CORMON, FERNAND French historical and portrait painter, was born in Paris in 1845 and died there in 1924. He became a pupil of Cabanel, Fromentin and Portaels, and at an early age attracted attention by the better class of sensationalism in his art, as in the "Murder in the Seraglio" (1868) and the "Death of Ravara, Queen of Lanka," at the Toulouse Museum. The Luxembourg has his "Cain flying before Jehovah's Curse" ; and for the Mairie of the fourth arron dissement of Paris he executed in grisaille a series of Panels: "Birth," "Death," "Marriage," "War," etc.